The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-11-18
THE PREPARATIONS.
Precautions Taken Against an Out.
break In the Vicinity of
the jail.

/ / TITS JAIL
II CHICAGO, Nov. l.--At six O'Clock thi
morning 800 policemen, armed with ri
flies, bayonets, reyolvers and full cart
ridge boxes, are on duty. At the Jail
Chief Ebersold is in command in person
his aides being Captain Buckley ant
Hubbard d. Setback. The battalion o
three companies of police that has beer
Iquartered in the Jail and criminal cour
building since the new orders went int
force, will do duty inside those building
to-day. In addition to the battalion or
the inside, there will be force on the
Ioutside, composed of company from
each of the five precints, commanded
by a lieutenant and three companies
from the central detail This force will
be armed with rifles, and will surround
the entire block in which the Jail is sit
uaJed, which. in addition to the cordonf
of police, win be inclosed by popas. The
lieutenants have been ordered TO station
their companies in open order, with
loaded pieces and fixed bayonets, and
have been especially instructed to hold
their positions, no matter what happens,
until they receive orders from their su-
perior officers The objects of the or
ders are these: The
MEN WILL BE DEPLoYED IN OPEN ORDER
so that if they are attacked. especially
| with bombs, the execution will not be
SO great, while at the same time the po-
lice will be able to return the fire with
greater effect and less danger to them
selves; and in case of attack they will
not break but hold their positions until
reinforced or called back. A police Off
cial said, in speaking of the arrange
ments, that the chief desired in case of
attack, to keep the police from being
thrown in confusion.
coFFINs IN WHICH TO DEPOSIT THE BODIES
of the condemned men after execution
were brought from the county hospital
at 3:15 a. m. Sheriff Mattson said he
had received notice from Attorney Sol
ONION to the effect that to carry the ord
er for execution into effect would be il
legal, and that he would be held to &C
count. He had not had any opportuni-
ty to OBTAIN any advice on the subject
but would confer with Mr.. Grlnnell this
morning.
How the Condemned Men Spent
the Night.
Cook CouNrY JAIL, CHICAGO, Nov. IL
During the night only newspaper men
who were admitted to the inner pre-
cincts of the Jail were representatives of
the Associated Press. At 4 o'clock one
of them made Il tour of the lower corri-
dor where Sr,es, P;rsons, Fischer and
Engel were confined. In each hall were
two stalwart guards who stood watch
over the anarchists. The former chatted
in low tones and whispered jokes among
themselves to while away the time, but
the talk and whispered jokes were all
lost on the anarchists. Each one was in
the heaviest of siumber. Spies lay on
one side, his head on his arm, and slept
as peacefully as baby. Fischer had
turned over on his back and the conse-
quence was that he frequently let out
snort that reached in a startling manner
through the silent corridors ofthe build
ing. Engel lay motionless as did Par
sons, except that at times the latter
startled uneasily as if dreams were
passing through his mind. Then at in
tervals the silence was broken by the
stealthy walk of an armed guard who
made the rounds of the lower corridor
to see that all was well. The only dis
turbing element was the mewing of the
Jail cat who kept up the noise so persist
entity that at last deputy bore down
on, captured and removed her to the
basement.
ANARCHISTS PARSONS, FISCHER, ENGEL AND
SPIES,
the convicted Haymarket murderers,
have been throttled by the law, the self
same law that they had hoped to throt-
tie. Their scaffold trap dropped at IL "a
a. m. to-day.